{"id":86353,"date":"2018-10-19T14:11:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T00:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=86353"},"modified":"2020-01-09T13:43:41","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T23:43:41","slug":"uh-west-oahu-clep-certified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/10\/19\/uh-west-oahu-clep-certified\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> West O\u02bbahu certified as CLEP<\/abbr> test site for students to earn college credits"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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The Noʻeau<\/span> Center<\/a> at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>–West Oʻahu<\/span> has been certified as a College-Level Examination Program<\/a> (CLEP<\/abbr>) test site that can administer exams to students hoping to obtain college credit for what they already know.<\/p>\n

The center was certified earlier this year after two years of effort to make the modifications and investment necessary to meet CLEP<\/abbr> test site standards. On October 1 it began offering the tests, which are designed to determine whether someone has a college-level understanding of the material.<\/p>\n

The test site designation is seen as a positive step for the UH<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span> campus, students, and community members. UH<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span> is the only Oʻahu<\/span> campus in the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> System certified for the testing. Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community College\u2019s Hale Kea Advancement and Testing Center<\/a> and Kauaʻi<\/span> Community College\u2019s Testing Center<\/a> are certified as test centers on the neighbor islands.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a good option for students,” said Lokelani Kenolio<\/strong>, director of the Noʻeau<\/span> Center, which offers peer-tutoring, testing, workshops and other student success services. “It\u2019s another way for them to get their college credits.”<\/p>\n

CLEP<\/abbr> is a program operated by The College Board that offers an opportunity to receive college credit through tests on different subject matter. The 90- to 120-minute exams are administered at test centers, with those scoring high enough earning college credit that can be transferred from The College Board to schools participating in the program.<\/p>\n

Besides providing a service for students to earn college credits quickly, the program also fits with UH<\/abbr> System efforts to attract students who “stopped out” back to school. The Returning Adult Initiative program seeks to boost enrollment while helping the state meet a goal of having 55 percent of adults earning college degree by the year 2025<\/a>. UH<\/abbr> West Oʻahu<\/span>\u2019s recently released Strategic Action Plan also calls for the implementation of Prior Learning Assessments to provide nontraditional students college credit that can be used toward degree attainment.<\/p>\n

Read more about the center at E Kamakani Hou<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

—By Greg Wiles<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The College-Level Examination Program tests are designed to determine whether someone has a college-level understanding of material in order to earn credits toward a degree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-86353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-uh-west-oahu","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86353"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109077,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86353\/revisions\/109077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}